I'm going all in next 72 hours.
To lurkers and only lurkers that remain in the shadows. You will likely derive a benefit you had no hand in creating. Be it forever on your dharma.
All in as in a final stand? Godspeed Nick
That is to say. All regular visitors here, who have abstained from ponying anything at all in the least bit any way (therefore.... by definition of a public good... and how such goods come about)
,-- "Free riders (aka lurkers)" are those who e.g. reside in town adjacent yours yet make use of your town's new public rec dogs you paid for and yet like all other of your neighbors in your town, for all to enjoy as a public use type of good. No one can be excluded from making use of it and benefitting from its existence at any moment for any reason (even if they pony'd up nada. And have no intrinsic sense of stewardship because theirs is the next town over not yours that they travel to purely to make use of something you paid for and they prefer over the equivalent that exists and they pay towards in their own town.
None of their tax monies went to the new park in your community.... Your tax money and that of your neighbors in your town paid for the new park...
However, those free riders (lurking here) from town adjacent cannot be excluded from coming to this town and benefitting from the park that exists as a function of this here townsfolks' tax dollars and city resources paid for therefrom.
Free riders cannot be excluded from the park and the park still be called a good from which public (e.g. anyone) benefit may be had ( a public good).
Makes me wonder about my country (The UK)
(((They))) imported a lot of asian muslims into my country who set up "zones" where we, the taxpayers, are not allowed to go into. Then they set up rape/pedo gangs where they systematically abused thousands of children. And british police knew and did nothing. No actually that's not true; they used to arrest any one of us who tried to get our kids back. You are not allowed to view links.
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It was a big red pill for me, and a hard one to swallow. I'm ashamed I did nothing to stop it but then again what could I do?
So as to your description of dharma, how does that stand?
There's a huge difference between someone coming to your community to use services paid for by you and not them, and someone coming to your community, using services, taking housing, paid for by you, and then stating you aren't allowed into your community. But you have to keep paying for it.